[linux-dvb] Re: DVD-Probs with v0.90

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Jean-Claude Repetto wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Schneider" <f.schneider@mb-schneider.de>
> To: <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:21 PM
> Subject: [linux-dvb] DVD-Probs with v0.90
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > when I play a DVD i have all 10 Sec. horizontally flickers.
> >
> > I have vdr 0.90 and driver's from 03.08.2001
> > I have an IDE DVD-LW.
> >
> > How can I solve it?
> > Thank you .
> >
> >
> It seems that you have the same problem as I have. Do you have also audio
> drop-outs at the same time ? What CPU do you have ?
> Please read my message sent to this list on 2 august, at 11:20 pm and look
> at your CPU charge with the "top" utility.
> There is a task, named "dvb_mon", that uses generally 0% CPU, but every 10
> or 15 seconds it uses up to 40 or 50% CPU, and then the problems appears.
> BTW, can somebody explain what exactly is the "Dvb_mon" task ?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jean-Claude

As far as I understand it 'dvb_mon' is the part of the DVB driver that
does the channel tuning.
I guess what's kicking in every now and then is the AFC function.
See DVB/driver/dvb.c for details.

Klaus
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